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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
by Dr. Brown-Sequard. Mr Sumner's fortitude. a letter from Aix in Savoy. life at Montpellier. return to Paris. Visit to La Grange. return to the United States. progress of events. Mr. Sumner again in the Senate. Sharp reply to Mr. Mason. John Brown and Mr. Sumner's Coat. Heed not what may be your fate; Count it gain when worldlings hate; Naught of hope or heart abate: Victory's before. Ask not that your toils be o'err Till all slavery is no more, No more, no more, no more! Eliza Lee Follen. If our arms at this distance cannot defend him from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots, to the Almighty Maker of men.--Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston deeply felt the blow received by Mr. Sumner; and his reception by the city, on the third day of November, was a triumph. A cavalcade numbering about eight hundred horsemen, together with a long line of carriages and an immense throng of people, with enlivening strains of mus
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
re the [Mass.] Senate to protest against the attempt to punish meetings like these with the State Prison (Lib. 28.91). to W. L. Garrison, at Brooklyn. Boston, Dec. 5, 1835. I write you in behalf of Miss Susan Cabot, a sister of our friend Mrs. Follen, and a firm supporter of the abolition faith. Eliza Lee Follen. She is about to pass some weeks in Philadelphia, and has a strong desire to become acquainted with Miss Grimke, who A. Grimke. wrote the admired letter in the Liberator addresseEliza Lee Follen. She is about to pass some weeks in Philadelphia, and has a strong desire to become acquainted with Miss Grimke, who A. Grimke. wrote the admired letter in the Liberator addressed to you. . . . Ante, 1.518. I have just read with intense interest Dr. Channing's tract on Slavery. It is the most elaborate work on the philosophy of Anti-Slavery I have ever seen, and appears most seasonably when iniquity is claiming to pass for an angel of light. I am grieved at some few censures of the abolitionists in it, put forth, I think, on insufficient grounds, but nineteen-twentieths of the book are sound in principle, and I will not grudgingly bestow my gratitude and praise
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 5: Texas.—1845. (search)
it is that darkest hour which is said to precede the dawn of day. Ms. Mar. 29, 1845. And Edmund Quincy notified the same correspondent in regard to Garrison—He is in good spirits,. . . . as he always is, and as we all have a trick of being. Mrs. Follen says that when she wants to be put in spirits, she goes among the abolitionists, and there she is sure to find cheerfulness, wit, humor, and fun. And who should be cheerful and merry, in this country, except the abolitionists? Eliza Lee FolleEliza Lee Follen. There can be no doubt that the acquisition of Texas hastened the overthrow of the Slave Power, by making it over-confident, by fostering dreams of an indefinite Southern expansion in case of separation from the North, by training the hot youth of the South to arms when Mexico was invaded and reduced—yet training not only Jefferson Davis, Lee, Stonewall Jackson, the two Johnstons, and so many other future chiefs of the Confederate army, but also Grant, Thomas, Meade, Hancock, and their fel
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 28: the city Oration,—the true grandeur of nations.—an argument against war.—July 4, 1845.—Age 34. (search)
y thought in such a presence. I rejoice that in you, sir, the city of Boston, and still more the cause of humanity, had an advocate and an orator so superior to all temporizing motives. In the same spirit Rev. Samuel J. May wrote from Syracuse, N. Y., July 22, expressing gratitude that Sumner, according to report, had improved his opportunity so well; and the hope that he would not be disconcerted by the expressions of displeasure from pseudo-patriots and spurious Christians. Mrs. Eliza Lee Follen,—widow of the German patriot, Charles Follen, herself an American lady, devoted like her husband to the anti-slavery cause,—wrote, July 15, expressing the joy of one who had watched him with a hopeful heart for many years, and now saw him disdaining to flatter the people, and speaking to them as an honest, courageous man rebuking their sins; thus redeeming the generous promise of his youth, and acting from the faith that fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Sumner revised